Council on Foreign Relations

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In recent decades, authors affiliated with Council on Foreign Relations have published 687 papers, which have received a total of 10.8k indexed citations. Scholars at this organization have produced 177 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 173 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 80 papers in Economics and Econometrics on the topics of International Relations and Foreign Policy (42 papers), Global Peace and Security Dynamics (25 papers) and Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (23 papers). Their work is cited by papers focused on Sociology and Political Science (2.9k citations), Political Science and International Relations (2.4k citations) and Economics and Econometrics (2.2k citations). Authors at Council on Foreign Relations collaborate with scholars in United States, United Kingdom and Belgium and have published in prestigious journals including Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine. Some of Council on Foreign Relations's most productive authors include David G. Victor, Oran R. Young, Charles A. Kupchan, Ronald P. Lesser, Andreas Schäfer, Nebojša Nakićenović, Arnulf Grübler, Thomas J. Bollyky, Jagdish N. Bhagwati and Audrey Kurth Cronin.

In The Last Decade

Council on Foreign Relations

488 papers receiving 9.7k citations

Countries citing scholars working at Council on Foreign Relations

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This map shows the geographic impact of research produced by authors working at Council on Foreign Relations. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers produced at Council on Foreign Relations with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Council on Foreign Relations more than expected).

Fields of papers published by authors at Council on Foreign Relations

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers affiliated with Council on Foreign Relations at the time of their publication. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers affiliated with Council on Foreign Relations at the time of their publication.

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